I am not clicking with this book. I know I haven't gotten far, but I mostly feel apprehension for what's to come and also a bit of fatigue with the writing style. It is reminding me of Spear, which I struggled with somewhat. This is a bit different since the prose is more floral and in first person perspective, but maybe I'm just not in the mood for myth retellings in general. May revisit later.

Too much animal suffering for me, gonna nope out of this one. 

This is a well written story that explores mostly the struggles of women and immigrants in the 1600s and 1800s. It also touches on how mental health was often misunderstood and demonized in those times. While those themes are being explored in lovely prose, I know the story of the Scarlet Letter and I'm dreading reading this and watching the main character suffer. She's trying her best to make friends and support herself, it's been a struggle from the start and I can see it all crashing down. I would like to pretend she catches a break instead and things work out better. I may revisit this. I do recommend if you aren't as much of a softy as me. 

I started listening to this on audiobook and I have no idea what's going on or who the characters are. I've never failed this spectacularly at following along. I think I'm not in the mood for regency era historical fiction at the moment. I'm gonna return the audiobook to the library and start something else. I'll come back to this later probably. 

Got this at a book sale and then read the reviews after. 

I didn't love the first one and had to keep forcing myself to put on this audiobook. My friend who I was reading it with said they would just continue and let me know what happens. They had read the first book before we listened to it on audiobook together, and said that the series maybe suffers from audiobook format because you can't skip past the more boring discussions and introspection that goes on. No fault of the narrators, though. 

bought this for my dad, didn't intend to read it myself

I watched the first couple seasons of the TV series and didn't enjoy it, so I didn't want to take the risk of reading the book and not enjoying it either. A friend of mine has read and watched both, and he suggested if I didn't like the show I probably wouldn't enjoy the book. 

I ordered this from Book of the Month along with my actual monthly selection for a friend who was very interested in reading it. They kept me updated with their progress and it didn't sound like the kind of book I'd enjoy, they had many issues with it that I think I would also dislike. 

I let a friend read this book before I did, and they said it didn't seem like something I would like.